to add some context to the present approach, you may remember that when we defined Editor
Model metrics we started from the highest possible level of aggregation (i.e. all
namespaces combined, archive table included). See rationale below from a previous email
exchange:
we tried to stick to two general principles:
1) we want to count users making contributions to a project as a whole. Establishing that
only “content activity” should be considered means that someone uploading a picture,
editing a template, drafting an article outside of ns0 (we have a new Draft namespace),
writing or contributing to a new policy, helping coordinate a wikiproject, i.e. all
fundamental activities that contribute to the growth of the project, would be discounted
as an editor. By this token, someone writing an entire article outside of the main
namespace would not be included as an editor while a vandal fighter only reverting edits
at the push of a button would be considered as a contributor. The point I’m trying to make
is that establishing what “content” means is very arbitrary and we should have a measure
of overall participation to a project, followed by more granular metrics by type of
contribution (see next point).
2) instead of starting with a list of exclusions (i.e. we will only measure a subset of
ns0 edits on articles meeting specific criteria such as countable pages), we will
introduce breakdowns that inform us about specific types of activity. “Namespace” is a
possible proxy for types of content, but not necessarily the best or the only one. One
day, I’d like to be able to monitor active typo-fixers or template-editors, but I believe
we should start from the highest possible level and count total activity or total unique
editors before breaking them down.
Adding a NS dimension or other criteria to filter top-level metrics sounds like a totally
legitimate request as a metric breakdown.
Dario
On Nov 4, 2014, at 12:55 PM, James Forrester
<jforrester(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks Toby! :-)
On 4 November 2014 12:38, Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:tnegrin@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Created tracking bug -- please add yourselves to the cc if desired.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72973
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72973>
-Toby
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:07 PM, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:jforrester@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
On 4 November 2014 12:00, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:ahalfaker@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Understood for page creations. The metric is named "Page creations". We ought
to have a metric called "Content page creations" or "Unique content page
creators".
Yeah, having both would be great but I don't want to demand the world on a stick.
;-)
One bit of complication: How do you feel about the draft namespace for enwiki? Should it
be included in content page creations?
That should be in $wgContentNamespaces but unfortunately isn't (see the config file
<http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php>).
I'll get that fixed.
As for edits, the correlation is so strong between edits to content and edits to other
namespaces that it doesn't matter which we use when looking for trends.[1]
1.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Refining_the_definition_of_monthly_…
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Refining_the_definition_of_monthly_active_editors>
Fair point.
J.
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